Benchmark Books & Running Records

Books to Assess Students' Levels and Monitor Progress

Raz-Plus provides printable, projectable, and eBook versions of our Benchmark Books as one of three parts
in our process designed to help place early emergent and emergent readers into developmentally appropriate levels and
monitor their progress toward reading success.

Why Benchmark Books

The Benchmark Books for Levels aa-J are one of three parts in a process that assesses reading behavior and
comprehension. Using the books with their running records, Retelling Rubrics, and Comprehension Quick Check Quizzes
provides an accurate measure of students' reading abilities.

Each level from aa-J has 1 fiction and 1 nonfiction Benchmark Book.

Only the first 100-150 words of each Benchmark
Book are used in Running Records.